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On the Long Island Expressway, Cold, Hungry and Stranded
The New York Times ^ | February 9, 2013 | NATE SCHWEBER and VIVIAN YEE

Posted on 02/09/2013 1:51:46 PM PST by PA Engineer

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — Lorna Jones decided to brave the blizzard on Friday, venturing onto the Long Island Expressway as the snow began piling up. So did many others here in Suffolk County.

They all came to regret it.

“It’s terrible. It’s cold. I don’t know how long I’m going to be here,” said Ms. Jones, 62, a nurse who stalled near the town of Brookhaven, less than a mile from her destination. “Are there any plans to help us?”

She said she had slept fitfully in her car, with no food or water, and only a bottle of Listerine next to her on the passenger seat.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: PA Engineer

All had substantial warning, and are responsible for their own situation.

Let the crying begin.


121 posted on 02/09/2013 6:14:24 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: tet68
The NYT interviewed these people, then DIDN’T help them...?

Yes. Wow.
122 posted on 02/09/2013 6:16:38 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: mrsmel

>> “Who does this kind of thing, needlessly, with only a bottle of mouthwash for sustenance?” <<

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Mensa candidates; its a part of the initiation.


123 posted on 02/09/2013 6:20:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Rushmore Rocks
I live in Rapid City, actually just west of it in the Hills

Stay safe. I'm trying to remember and think the storm was in 78. Just married and the Wife was doing the first year of her Public Health payback at Sioux San. We got dumped on and I went and shoveled for about an hour before I realized something was wrong. It seemed brighter for some reason than the normal post storm sun shine. It finally donned on me that the neighbors garage had blown away down the mountain. LOL. Those formative years.
124 posted on 02/09/2013 6:24:23 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Pollster1

>> “In my car, I have three days of food and water for the family (with careful rationing), spare boots and coats, flashlights, Sterno, matches, and more other gear than this woman can imagine. It’s all packed neatly - but no Listerine” <<

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Ditto!

We have tools, chains, lights, blankets, jackets, sterno & stove, food and water in all of our cars.

What kind of idiot wouldn’t?


125 posted on 02/09/2013 6:25:41 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: NoGrayZone
They were about 4-6 hours off course. EVERY site I went to, even weather underground, were off.

Dude?
126 posted on 02/09/2013 6:26:54 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: lurk

Bet she is a charter member of “Occupy.”


127 posted on 02/09/2013 6:27:19 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mrsmel
Tard should be able to crawl like a toddler back home ONE MILE if all else fails.

The communists and perverts have won.

Bug out or reset.

128 posted on 02/09/2013 6:27:50 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

...one of those ‘stay off I-90 east of town nights’, eh?


129 posted on 02/09/2013 6:28:24 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: PA Engineer

Lorna Jones is a New York Public Authority Employee - Lorna Jones is employed as a Special Officer in the New York City Health And Hospitals Corporation division of the Municipal Authorities agency.


130 posted on 02/09/2013 6:32:15 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Grams A

” Since she was relatively close, why didn’t she just get out and hoof it? “

Hoofing it in a blinding snowstorm is awful. I had to do it just once and I truly thought that was the end of me.

I was dressed appropriately and I was only 25 years old.

I’ll never forget it and it was 55 years ago.

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131 posted on 02/09/2013 6:37:59 PM PST by Mears
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To: TheRhinelander

“This is why Cadillac Deval banned driving on roadways here in MA. People are idiots.”

I’m in Connecticut, but in my travels around I’ve observed that the WORST drivers I’ve ever observed are those from Massachusetts. In view of that, perhaps Deval’s edict wasn’t as unwise at it seems.

Freepers excepted, of course!


132 posted on 02/09/2013 6:41:54 PM PST by Road Glide
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To: Slambat
And never say “that’s not the way we did it up north”.

You got that right. We used to have bumper stickers here in Georgia which read, "I don't give a damn how you did it up North".

133 posted on 02/09/2013 6:44:37 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: muir_redwoods

How many storms of the century have we had so far in this century?


134 posted on 02/09/2013 6:47:54 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: PA Engineer

No. I’m a girl.


135 posted on 02/09/2013 6:48:50 PM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: PA Engineer

Why hasn’t FEMA rescued everybody? Are they going to gather in the Superdome?


136 posted on 02/09/2013 7:13:30 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: kcvl
Lorna Jones is a New York Public Authority Employee - Lorna Jones is employed as a Special Officer in the New York City Health And Hospitals Corporation division of the Municipal Authorities agency.

Interesting. Thanks. Just another foot soldier in the golden horde.
137 posted on 02/09/2013 7:50:15 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: NoGrayZone
No. I’m a girl.

I know. I was giving you an out.
138 posted on 02/09/2013 7:52:15 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer

How is it we all know she’s a democrat?


139 posted on 02/09/2013 8:00:01 PM PST by GOPJ (What EVIDENCE justified blaming Benghazi on... an obscure video? Freeper TexasVoter)
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To: Mears

Snowstorms are not to be taken lightly but I never have been able to just sit and wait real well. But you did have an opportunity to find out what you were made of that day and that is worth a whole lot. Life is often just forcing yourself to put one foot in front of the other, regardless of what lies ahead. Glad you made it. Lots of people won’t even try to help themselves anymore.


140 posted on 02/09/2013 8:09:18 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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